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Rafat

Rafat is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, located approximately 4 km southwest of the city of in the central .
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  • Type: Village with 2,940 residents
  • Description: village council in Jerusalem Governorate
  • Also known as: “Rafat, Jerusalem”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ofer Penitentiary and Jerusalem Airport.

Prison
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
Ofer Prison, formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385, is an Israeli military incarceration facility in the Israeli-occupied , between and .

Aerodrome
Photo: Ehudg, Public domain.
Jerusalem International Airport was a regional airport located in the city of . When it was opened in 1925, it was the first airport in the British Mandate for Palestine. is situated 2½ km east of Rafat.

Park
Photo: Hadi Hijjawi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al Judeira and Qalandia.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Palestinian village in the of the State of Palestine, in the central . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,634 in 2017.

Village
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Qalandiya, also known as Kalandia, is a Palestinian village located in the , between and , just west of the West Bank barrier.

Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Palestinian enclave town in the located eight kilometers northeast of , in . In mid-year 2006, it had an estimated population of 6,100 residents.

Rafat

Latitude
31.87185° or 31° 52′ 19″ north
Longitude
35.19282° or 35° 11′ 34″ east
Population
2,940
Elevation
774 metres (2,539 feet)
Open location code
8G3QV5CV+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432294856
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
282265
Wiki­data ID
Q7282411
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Russian—“Rafat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Rāfāt”
  • Arabic: “رافات، القدس، فلسطين”
  • Arabic: “رافات، القدس”
  • Arabic: “رافات”
  • Arabic: “قرية رافات، القدس”
  • Bulgarian: “Рафат”
  • Catalan: “Rafat”
  • Cebuano: “Rāfāt”
  • Dutch: “Rafat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رافات”
  • French: “Rafat”
  • Galician: “Rafat”
  • Hebrew: “ראפאת”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rafat”
  • Persian: “رافات”
  • Russian: “Рафат”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rafat”. Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.